THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1938.
Beware Of Thirsty Skins!
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That Sun Up In The Sky Isn't As Friendly As It Feels
by Ursula Jeffries
It is an extraordinary fact that, is a sin against hair beauty; wash women who at other times take a lit out or beware of the future " lot of care of themselves, throw Yes, we were. half inchined to do caution to the four winds during it. because although the first warm those months when the sun shines. (rays of the sun, penetrating They would never think of braving winter being, are pure ecstasy, you the winter without protecting their shouldn't give way to the sun until skins. yet they'll allow sun and sea you have insured your skin against to do their worst.
On
its ravages.
Skin Thirst
your
shult SAN EXPOSED
WHE
IS TIME,
SUN BATHERS, BEWARE!
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A Paris publication has-printed After this preparation during the advice to those going to the Ri-first-four days, the body will be able Reclining with the rest of the people on bask at. Repulse Bay -on
viera in regard to sun-bathing pre-to withstand the sun's rays for cautions. Sun baths are highly any period. At all times care must Sunday, we were tempted to go
You know as well as we do that beneficial, but care has to be exer- be taken to keep the head covered about delivering beauty tracts.
fin places where the sun shines per-cised at the beginning, and an en-in the case of a prolonged sun bath. Something tastefully printed bits
topetually, such as the desert, thirst thusiast who gets too much sun on The writer adds that people suffer- of cardboard to deliver
the is humanity's arch-enemy. Throats the first day may have serious causeing at all from the liver, or whose every prone body that lay on sands. Inscribed on them would become parched until water is the to regret it
lungs threaten to give trouble, be such messages as "Your skin is only thought. The same applies to
The writer of the article is a doc-should not indulge in sun-bathing exposed to ruination; save it while your skin. Has it ever occurred to tor, and these are his recommenda without consulting their physician.
curious tight feeling tions: there is time.” Or, perhaps, "Salt you that the
which your skin frequently gets On the first day, expose to the during the summer is skin thirst? sun only legs and arms during five
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1 stalk celery 1 bay leaf
The natural oils which are food and drink to the complexion get dried up in the heat and the stretched feeling is nature's way of asking
1 small veal knuckle (without for a drink.
meat)
expose
Oils too
minutes.
you get back to town, indulge in
they'll soon put the lustre back and stop that withered feeling which your hair often gets after a day at the beach. But prevention is bet- ter than cure, right-textured brilliantine.
so do use a nice,
Sun's Glare Makes Wrinkles
Another trouble which gives one
Personal
Jottings
A wedding of great interest_to" local circles will be solemnised at St. John's Cathedral on April 30, when Miss Pauline Tatiana Wood, daughter of Lady Wood, the wife of Sir Henry Wood, the famous musical composer and conductor, will become the bride of Lieutenant
Goerge Jameson Cardew, R.X. The and later a reception will be held in the roof garden of the Hong Kong Hotel
The wedding took place yeter- day at St. James' Church, The Is- land, Weihaiei, between Lieuten ant Commander. Edward Michael
On the second day, expose the legs for five minutes, then the legs and thighs for another five minutes. On the third day, expose legs and Nearly everyone suffers from a thighs ten minutes, and then the 1 small tomato; salt and pepper dry skin, which is simply a thirsty abdomen during five minutes. Hare the butcher cut the beef skin. If we give it food and drink For the fourth day, legs, thighs into slices about 1 inch thick, and in the way of a rich cream, the and abdomen should be exposed then flatten them with his mallet tightness disappears. But deny during a quarter of an hour, and until they are not more than your skin these needs, and you'll then uncover the chest for five 7-inch in thickness. Rub each soon find fine wrinides where there minutes. slice with salt and pepper. Run used to be smoothness. through the grinder 1 small onion, So girls, take a bit of wise coun- 2 sprigs of parsley, and the bacon-cil before you go out to Chop coarsely 1 of the slices of your body beautiful to the toasting one or two hot oil shampoos ceremony will be largely attended, beef, and combine“ with the in- rays of the sun, cover yourself from gredients which have been ground, head to foot in any one of the sun and season all with salt, pepper,
protectives. Semi-liquids are es- thyme, and spices. Spread each slice of beef with this mixture, and pecially intended for gentle barn- ers, while the most thorough ones lay one on top of the other, cmitting! the mixture on the outside slice. are the heavier creams. Tie all tightly together with cotton are effective, but whatever you use, string, to form a firm loaf. Dot apply it ten minutes before you go into the sun, so that it can sink in with butter, and put in a hot oven (400 Deg. F.) and let brown. Pour as much as it will, and prevent your a strained feeling and, incidental-Penton of HMS. Suffolk, and sec- over all 14 cups boiling water, add skin from becoming parched and ly, leads to a first-class collection ond son of Sir Edward and Lady
of of wrinkles is screwing up one's Penton
Walton-on-the-Hill, sliced onion, 1 carrot, sliced old and curiously dried up. tomato, celery, 1 sprig parsley, bay Now let's have a go at the salt eres. We all do it when the Surrey, and Marjorie Ivy Parsons, leaf, veal knuckle and salt and water bogey. Bathing's grand-glare is too strong, and suddenly a eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. pepper. Cover closely, lower heat nothing to beat it but watch out tracery of lines appears from E. Parsons of Shanghai: of oven to 325 Deg. F., and continue that it doesn't steal the gilt from nowhere, and we want to know how cooking for 2 hours. Remove your beauty ginger-bread. We noto banish them in double quick strings from beef, place on hot ticed lots of girls come out of the time. Again, why not prevent this platter, and pour on gravy.
sea their skins glistening with happening?
Mr. Hans H. P. Melchers, general drops of water -and instead of We shouldn't really be telling manager for the Far East of the drying themselves off, as they you this for as if you didn't know,
Transocean News Service, arrived should, especially if they have a but we only noticed a very few wise in the Colony from Shanghai in the tendency to freckle throw them-girls wearing tinted glasses, and S-S. Jean Laborde on Thursday, for selves on the sands for the sun to one of them was ourselves. Tinted an extended inspection trip to South do the job. You know that fire glasses may not be pretty, but rust China and the Philippines. can be lighted by letting the sun think of the trouble they save? If shine through a glass? Well, each that silly little rhyme, “Men seldom drop of water on your bare skin make passes at girls who wear acts like a bit of glass. Some skins glasses occurs to you, just tell Mrs Buttress, wife of Mr. E. F. can stand the heat, but frecklers yourself that it's rot Just as
of the Public Works De- can't.
many girls are attractive with partment has been admitted to the glasses as without, and if you don't Queen Mary Hospital Mrs. But, believe it, count your rriedtress who was at first admitted to in spectacles. the Kennedy Town Hospital last lasses, we Thursday on a suspicion of suffer- ing from small-poz, was later found suffering from chicken pox and transferred to the Queen Mary
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·VEAL KIDNEYS WITH MUSTARD
(for 6)
4 veal kidneys; 4 tbsps. butter 1⁄2 cup cream
2 taps. prepared mustard
1 tsp. chopped chives
1 tsp. lemon juice;
salt, tabasco, paprika
Remove the fat and skin from the kidneys, and let them soak in cold water for 2 hours, changing
Hair Becomes Dry the water several times. Drain, wipe the kidneys carefully, and rub
Then, what about that hair friends who ap with salt and pepper. Heat 3 which, in spite of your bathing cap, When we say tablespoonfuls of butter in a frying seems to have more than a nodding don't meza pan, and brawn the kidneys in it acquaintance with Neptun meffew cents, quickly (about 3 minutes). Then it's become really salty, the only have a bad cut them in slices and put in a thing, is to shampoo it thoroughly mean property saucepan with cream, mustard, and have a fresh set. But since tained. chives,
3, salt, tabasco, and paprika, that's a nuisance, counteract the They are and the juice that has come from wetting with brilliantine.
Ffind them them when sliced Cook for 3 The trouble with salt water is sports. minutes more, add
table that it dries up the oil in the hair, And spoonfni of batter, and the lemon so here again, the only thing to do any girl who juice, and serve at once.
telling
Bota
Club meeting
day and the Chief Justice,
Sir Atholl Macgregor